I've got a question about your first blog entry. You said you were making a Hexographer map, so that you could add new locations. What have you added to the Hexographer map of the City State of the Invincible Overlord area?

The Religions of the CSIO blog entry looks like it is going to be interesting. I'll probably wait for the other two parts before asking any questions about that, but I think the three parts are going to be useful to other WIlderlands GMs.

Big Mac wrote:I've got a question about your first blog entry. You said you were making a Hexographer map, so that you could add new locations. What have you added to the Hexographer map of the City State of the Invincible Overlord area.

The original map of Hex 01-2623 first appeared on the back of the Campaign Hexagon System book. It shows the City State and its surroundings, though those surroundings are rather empty, other than the bits that were also on the City State map.

While some folks like the whole "as empty as a desert wasteland" feel of the Wilderlands, I like mine a little less empty. So I added a few more things here and there; a couple of hamlets, a couple of inns, some encounter points, statues, shrines, lairs, etc.

The 5-mile hexes of the Wilderlands of High Adventure are far less empty than those of the Wilderlands of High Fantasy. Though they are not as full as they might seem. Small triangles represent either encounter points or lairs. An "encounter point" is a location where, when the party enters that hex, you always check for a random encounter of the listed type, and the odds of an encounter are 3 in 6 rather than the usual 1 in 6.

For example, there are two "Giant Frog" encounter points on the map. When the party enters that hex, you roll a d6; on a 1-3, they encounter giant frogs. Roll again to determine the type of giant frogs (d10): 1-6 Giant, 7+8 Killer, 9+10 Poisonous.

My notes on the blog will include information that characters might know about these things; when I'm done detailing the entire map on the blog, I'll also post my judge's notes to Google Drive for judges to use...